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Video Violence Beating the prostitutes to death? Killing cops? Drive-by shootings? What fun! It's all part of bringing an interactive motion picture experience right to your living room. Teens will laugh of at the idea anybody trying to regulate the video games they play, and well they might. Efforts so far to keep gruesomely violent images in video games away from youths have been very feeble. The separation of kids and pornography is fairly well …

…The violence being marketed by the $10 billion video game industry is obscene, and it should be treated like pornography. It poses a serious enough risk to kids that it must be regulated. Our society keeps many things out of reach of children, such as alcohols and tobaccos, because we have a special responsibility to protect children until they are of an age where they must make decisions for themselves. Reference: Vol XIII, Weekend Balita, No. 3